Hugh Laurie doesn't speak French ???

[@lespatmilescyrusbff]

He's actually really good. His pronunciation is nearly spot-on! And I am French. Also, he's charming and hilarious!! I loved "pouf, 5" haha, trop drôle!

[@JeDorsBeaucoupTrop]

Actually his French is not so bad...it is even good. Very few mistakes (to be exact only one) but perfectly understable and diversified vocabulary. Good job Dr House.

[@daregirl72]

You gotta love Hugh Laurie. That man is a comic genius.

[@_jovanaK1]

Fr

[@alaindumostrou6189]

What a perfect accent !!! ( I am french )

[@louisetta1000]

HUGH LAURIE IS ONE OF THE BEST ACTORS -- HE SAT IN HIS SMALL BATHROOM FOR THE ACOUSTIC AND FIXED UP AN AUDIO-CASSETTE WHICH HE SENT TO HOLLYWOOD !! GREAT GUY, GREAT ACTOR... GREAT LOOKS, PERFECT FOR THE ROLE

[@somerandomplatypus2059]

louisetta1000 ok, ok calm down

[@louisetta1000]

coeur de rafale 'calm down' ???!!!! I love Hugh Laurie... HE IS A REAL ACTOR/ COMEDIAN !!!

[@le_souverainiste_francais7420]

On croirait un vrai Français.

[@m3gusta17]

Loving the look on Ben Kingsley's face, and how Helen Mirren trolls Laurie with "winnowing" immediately afterwards.

[@anthonyfanchin1144]

It's so funny how Laurie stays in character as House.

[@somerandomplatypus2059]

because house's caractère is adapted to hugh's caractère, hugh is a actor how like make jokes, like house ^^

[@Eleanor-yc6bw]

House isn’t French...

[@TacoBlend]

@@somerandomplatypus2059 stroke, much?

[@Elameey]

House is Laurie.

[@larapalma3744]

​@@TacoBlend duh he's French

[@brandy1079]

I found this clip recently, and I've come back a few times already, I just absolutely love it, can't stop watching it over and over again😃 I love how good Hugh Laurie is at foreign languages; just 1 of his many qualities! 🥰 (and of course this is also extremely funny!)

[@paulinecourtois7403]

C'est super dur le français à apprendre et le plus dur reste l'accent comme dans toutes les langues ! Bravo !

[@xanderbg1]

... and suddenly everybody in the comments speaks french

[@somerandomplatypus2059]

the french is awesome ^^

[@fredericberube6771]

Pourquoi pas?

[@hitrapperandartistdababy]

Hon hon hon

[@energyskill1413]

et puis c'est quoi le probleme??

[@vivi_ccc]

benh quoi ?

[@FaerieDust]

LOVE this! Especially the "properly!" and "Yes, dear" at the end, they both sound so perfectly English

[@DCLynneHaddock]

I love the look on Helen Mirren's face when she gives him the difficult word. She is a legend as well.

[@crunk4124]

I don't know if you guys realise how hard is it for someone who has english as a mother language to pronounce the ''r'' in french but damn Hugh Laurie does it ! Man he is good !

[@tubreeze]

I'm not French-speaking and from the animated mannerism of Laurie and annoyed mannerism of the lady beside him, I thought at first that Laurie was speaking gibberish. When I read from the other comments that he's actually spot-on with the French, I was amazed at how brilliant this sketch has played on Laurie's fame for accents and nationality. Brilliant!

[@fab92n15]

Hugh should play in french movie. He could be good enough!

[@Orlabobz]

Hugh Laurie - the best thing to come from Britain and like a true Brit, completely modest about his brilliance!

[@Truthiness231]

From British person to great actor to great actor that speaks French... he's sure moved up in the world ^.^ (yes I realize he was already popular whilst British; I've seen every episode of Black Adder and A Bit of Fry and Laurie

[@brit47]

Waaa je savais pas qu'il parlait aussi bien français, et qu'il avait une si bonne prononciation. Hugh Laurie is Amazing !!!! I love Him!!!

[@mypeople33]

"à la tâche presque impossible" this is too cute when he said that^^

[@ayrtons41]

This is what happens when two trained experience performers that understand and know every trick of the trade in comedy come together, when someone says "let's put james franco and anne hathaway to host the oscars" you say fucking no.

[@Endorphiinee]

Hugh Laurie a un très bon francais, comme il nous l' a prouvé à son concert, mais cette satanée fausse modestie... ! ^^ Pouf ! Cinq ! XD

[@somerandomplatypus2059]

mais n'empèche hugh c'est : rien a foutre de votre cérémonie, moi je fais des blagues XD

[@Dixon_Cider]

simply brilliant!

[@ZeruMordecai]

Ah Hugh Laurie... from an era when actors were actually skilled and respectable. Love the guy.

[@Elisaux]

I've seen this video like a thousand times.. and i laugh so hard every single time xD Btw, I'm french and his pronounciation is perfect!

[@brandonrichard-neighbor4502]

I'm American and love France, French, and French people. I even took a few French classes in high school and college. J'adore Français!

[@lb17_]

So great to read, I hope it is still the case 10 years later !

[@1938gwen]

Wonderful! Two great British talents.

[@dazzPod]

0:36 Hugh Laurie turns into Gregory House :)

[@Matt561]

People forget how funny Hugh Lauire is

[@wheedler]

How?

[@BennyEternET]

Very difficult task : Tâche presque impossible => Lol brillant ! de winowing => lol no. Very good french still ;).

[@RunG00D4Ever]

Excellent ! He's so crazy ! I dream that one day i'll speak english like he's speaking french ! La france vous adore Mr Laurie ! France love you Mr Laurie !

[@Arcomatik]

lol, his accent is quite good, he's actually good on difficult sounds for english guys, like "in", "an/en", "r" and so on. But on rythming, he speaks french with, like, a german accent ! :)

[@bibs942]

Il est trop fort ce type!!! loooooool

[@brandy1079]

😃

[@EymericSeven]

00:40 sa voix ressemble a elle de fred, d'omar et fred ! o.o

[@matt28500]

Bien vu !!

[@Novak2611]

there's nothing as bad as a french speaking english

[@louisetta1000]

ABSOLUTELY TRUE !! EVEN FRENCH POLITICIANS... LOL !!! ABSOLUMENT VRAI, MEME LES POLITICIENS FRANçAIS POUR LA PLUPART, ONT UN ACCENT ATROCE !!!

[@zakkxx1]

Ah ahah i guess i'm The only exception then

[@equality2616]

Username You don't know a lot of French...

[@louisetta1000]

I LOVE HUGH LAURIE !!!!!!!!!! I DONT CARE IF HE SPEAKS FRENCH OR NOT !!!! HE IS ONE OF THE GREATEST COMEDIAN BESIDES BEING A WONDERFUL MUSICIAN !!!!

[@mdoule]

@zemersEU Actualy pixels are same regardless of compression. Compression doesn't eats out pixels, it affects collor informations :)

[@sebcoKOB]

Le meilleur de tout les temps !! merci monsieur Laurie !

[@user-nb2cx2cv4w]

The granny is so rude...since when speaking French means not speaking properly!!!

[@staybeautifulx285]

When she said about speak properly she meant speak English duh

[@zitronentee]

Granny? You meant The Queen?

[@zerogullibility]

Both performers are at the very best of their game. The handful of "voters" who claim to dislike this clip must be so very sad and pathetic. They most probably "dislike" everything that is ever put before them as an attempt to entertain them. Some people are just angry to be alive, I suppose. Hopefully their suffering will be brief, so the rest of humanity can go on with a little less of whatever it was these chronic malcontents insist they have contributed to society. Hugh Laurie RULES!

[@OwonaVivienD]

@thebeastisback2007 That's not a crazy theory, indeed. Because of the "n" the pronunciation of "cinq" actually differs depending on the region (chiefly Northern vs. Southern France).

[@KuroOokami2]

Bravo, cela fais plaisir de voir un si grand acteur et si connu de parler en Français ! Sans se moquer ^^

[@Pearlharbor350]

I couldn't hear over them retreating to the beaches by Dunkirk.

[@6ermany]

@guiyak perhaps the category they were announcing was prestigious? herp

[@chongtak]

I respect native English speakers who make the effort to learn another language. Thumb up!

[@the.wildspark]

@phiil0u Actually it does make sence. Helen says that out of hundreds of performances they went down to the best 5 of them. So Hugh was refering to the 5 performances that came first.

[@gremlinextreme101]

@LaMlleAlex C'etait un synonyme de réduire en Anglais, littéralement "Épannelager".

[@Ayleesha]

I remember this... sooo funny.. love Hugh Laurie and Helen Mirren.

[@chongtak]

Good to speak many languages. I am a Viet Nam born Chinese, grew up in France, Hong Kong, Japan and now Thailand since three years. I speak Vietnamese, Cantonese, Hakka, Mandarin, French, English, Japanese, Lao and Thai. More to come, I like to learn new languages. But still when I see a native English speaker I have a good attitude toward him/her because you know native English speakers usually don't bother to learn another language.

[@mongomeryaria2861]

I understand what you mean. French and German are both difficult languages (I learn German at school too). And it's also true that English is easier to learn for foreigners, thanks to all the american and english movies, tv shows, etc... Beside English is obligatory at school, unlike french, german or spanish.

[@Aiglea]

Oooohhhh, two of the best, talented and beautiful actors together! Is it even possible?! Nice accent there mr. Laurie, even if I'm certainly not an expert on the French language... so, he can speak at least THREE quite different accents fluently?

[@Klicethereal]

@Draksen Il est anglais. Oui je sais ça m'a surpris aussi, son accent dans Dr house est super convaincant.

[@lekikko]

@mcgp9004 exactement, tu ne pouvais pas mieux trouver comme comparaison.

[@GenomsoldierRV]

Thank you Hugh Laurie your the man, and by the way, Bravo très bel accent!

[@LondonPride25]

@magguylicious We're practically the same people, maybe that has something to do with it. The Angles and the Saxons were both tribes that moved to Eastern and Southern England from what is now Northern Germany.

[@MRossmose]

nice try & well done ! Hugh speaks french better than french's actors could speak english ! respect for that. nice accent, it's a pleasure to listen to him. moi je n'écris pas aussi bien en anglais que je parle français... ;)

[@TheAnonCritique]

it's taken from an old sketch from A Bit of Fry and Laurie.

[@Lap1depak]

@HoppusOffTheWall Oui, c'est "winnowing", qui a ici le sens de "réduire" (c'est un terme agricole à la base)

[@nikksmtey]

@carmineoxide and how should it be pronounced? just out of curiosity I'm not american but I do pronounce Hugh as "hue", kinda.

[@girvinie]

OMG, that was so good! And it is funny because when he speaks french, he has a german accent, it's strange xD Mon rêve est devenu réalité *-*, merci Hugh!

[@vince91820]

perfect answer, thanks

[@leothedrawer3]

@NassooProduction oh, of course it depends of the place, a german dont have much dificulty to learn his language for example, im just talking generally and the intellectual of the person counts of course

[@marie__d_17]

J'adore regarder cette video ! Hugh laurie est juste génial :)

[@04024jordon]

@rosati222 i don't think so tbh i've never noticed it myself i know some people who do and some that don't, i think it varies from person to person just like with English speakers speaking french.

[@simplythebest286]

it's a very good ,french with very accurate ponounciations , well done !!!!

[@sylisr6567]

His accent is very good especially the tonic accent which is always on the last syllabe of a group of words in French.

[@psychoredhot]

@Varoonmg Ah j'avoue ça doit pas être pratique d'apprendre le français tard, conjugaison grammaire prononciation..

[@Breizhekiel]

Le début est impeccable en tout cas ! "la tâche presque impossible..." niveau soutenu en français ! He speaks very good french (learnt by heart to show off ? :D) at the begining ^^

[@HitChickPsycho]

O_o I'm confused. The title says Hugh Laurie doesn't speak French, with the little questionmarks, yet in the video he does.

[@whatzup331]

I am french canadian and his french is actually pretty good! I understood everything :)

[@agpban]

the english are so cool and elegant. quel sens de l'humour !!! Helen Miren speach and understand french very well. I know that hugh grant, alan rickman, emma thompson speach french too, but i didnt know for hugh laurie.

[@Cruzazulini]

@V0r4xiz He knows English, Spanish and French fluently. Not to mention a stunning American accent.

[@DragonNexus]

@TheYoshiToshi Wow, thank you SO MUCH for pointing out why it's funny. I'm sure we were all staring blankly at the screen at that point until you explained it for us all.

[@NytrXoX]

J'adore à la fin "A la tache presque impossible de winnower" Excellent Hugh =)

[@seulalee2024]

when im bored i always watch this lol hugh laurie is beautiful!~

[@keirenann]

@Milaye89 depuis quand les anglo saxons roulent les R?n importe quoi!!les R sont aspires pas roules!bref il a quand meme un fort accent,mais on aime bien ca en france(en general du moins)

[@MaxAtTheMax]

0:48 I swear that is the actor that played Gandhi in the movie Gandhi!

[@Flyflily]

@1improper He translates in french what the woman is saying in english :)

[@juniorjenova]

it is weird,but in my country,Bulgaria,we use the french word 'merci' when we want to thanks about something to someone.ofcourse,we had bulgarian word for this,but 'meci is more usefull in every day's convercations.

[@Melhendring]

Except that he was correcting another youtube comment that was in French. In first it was written "Notre langue est pas", but swisswaycc corrected by telling him that in french the negation is with the n' and it gives "n'est".

[@arkfowl]

Hugh Laurie is someone who understands humor

[@psychoredhot]

@Varoonmg C'est pas ca que je veux dire, un mec parle français et waouh tout le monde trouve ça exceptionnel ^^ (et justement, parfois c'est risible les français qui parlent anglais) x)

[@JAD3889]

Yeah, I had talked to him about that. We had cleared things up, it was just a misunderstanding. What part of france are you from? I have a friend in Montpellier..

[@reclusivenigma]

@carmineoxide nah, we pronounce him as "huge" laurie

[@Nclm1]

@Salioune47 Ouais j'ai fini par comprendre, merci ;)

[@epma_2000]

@V0r4xiz Well, some french native Speakers say right here that he does really well.. mmm.. You know even when it is memorized, it is really difficult to say something you do not understand with a good accents.. so, yeah, I think, at least he does it pretty good.

[@CyrilleParis]

For the record, the most visited city in Europe is London and Paris is second (see the Visa/Forbes survey). But France is by far the most visited country in the world with 83 millions visitors in 2012 (United Nations World Tourism Organization), 16 million more visitors than the United States which is in second place. In terms of received foreign direct investment (FDI in $), France went from 4th in 2007 to 2nd in 2010 (twice less than the USA with one fifth of it's population).

[@DaishanGibson]

Woaaaw ! Il parle super bien ! :D Hugh Laurie a un très bel accent, et woaw quoi..

[@nicki446]

selon moi il parle très bien, avec un accent merveilleux. et aussi je trouve que Helen Mirren est absolument belle..

[@MatthewWith2Ts]

I could translate that in a matter of seconds, but I won't bother. You see, we Flemish learned English, Dutch, German and French at school. Those are the languages of our neighboring countries. I'm curious which languages you guys learned. German? Italian? Spanish? Dutch? English?

[@Maelkenar]

@PirateSkitchan btw, it's "cinque", not "cinq". Other than that, good show

[@TheQueenCamille]

Really great job! Je pensais que son accent allait être terrible! Mais non, il est assez bon je dois dire.

[@AndroidLust7]

Oh I love those two! Hilarious!

[@Wanarbou]

That's true pretty much everywhere in the world. Italy, Japan, China... On the plus side, most women in the world like the sound of French.

[@swisswaycc]

Exactly, I agree with you

[@psychoredhot]

@Varoonmg Personnellement j'ai vécu à Londres et je parle donc anglais plutot bien ^^ mais c'est vrai que les mots bien détachés à la française c'est comique x) Après je sais pas, ça peut paraitre "mignon" C'est toujours mignon quand quelqu'un parle une autre langue que la sienne, du moins essaie

[@Redhotice54]

@ByondKontrol English and british are the same accent. You mean the english language but in an american accent.

[@mhalo5]

My God the man's list of talents is endless

[@RafyLitchi]

@Rlouckxke Maybe it's easy to learn, but speak french perfectly is very very hard. French has a very difficult and complex grammary, and even for us, it's quite difficult (yeah I'm French).

[@alexgerber102]

@leothedrawer3 polish, hungarian, and latin too, yeah.

[@Ewilandu7241]

J'adore la traduction! Si seulement on pouvait faire pareil en anglais "pouf thanks".

[@Ninoun80]

He does says something at the beginning but he speaks french with a german accent

[@callysto_ii]

Oh I'm sorry I didn't see ^^ I'm from Paris but I also have some friends in Montpellier :)